Aerospace · Structural Analysis

Aerospace
structural analysis.

I'm Berkay Kuşkıra — Lead Structural Analysis Engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries. I substantiate metallic and composite aircraft structures from concept layout through certification — static strength, stability, fatigue and damage tolerance — with a current focus on a next-generation fighter-jet programme.

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Focus

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Fatigue & Damage Tolerance

Slow-crack-growth and fail-safe substantiation of fracture- and durability-critical parts.

02

GFEM-Driven Sizing

Internal-load extraction, detailed sub-models and allowables feeding the global sizing loop.

03

Certification Reporting

Release-level stress reports — EASA CS-23 trainer to next-generation fighter structure.

04

AI-Assisted Tooling

ML surrogates, multi-objective optimisation and LLM-built automation for the stress workflow.

About

Across fighter-jet, eVTOL and trainer programmes — building, breaking and substantiating structures.

Lead Structural Analysis Engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) with eight years substantiating metallic and composite aerospace primary structure. Current scope spans AI-assisted method-and-tool development for the stress organisation and Fatigue & Damage Tolerance ownership on a fighter-jet programme. Track record includes EASA CS-23 certification on the Hürkuş trainer (forward fuselage, rudder), GFEM-driven sizing across fighter-jet primary structure, and preliminary landing-gear and e-VTOL structural studies. Authors release-level stress reports, drives slow-crack-growth and fail-safe assessments, and closes non-conformances across loads, design and test interfaces.

The discipline sits between equilibrium and history — between what a part can take and what it has been through. The pages here gather the work: portfolio, resume, and occasional notes on the things I learn along the way.

Portfolio

Two areas of work.

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01 · aerospace

Aerospace

Substantiation of metallic and composite aircraft primary structure — GFEM-driven sizing, fatigue and damage-tolerance assessment, certification stress reporting.

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02 · solid mechanics

Solid Mechanics

Linear and non-linear stress analysis, topology optimisation, and academic research in solid mechanics — composite laminates, bolted joints, buckling stability.

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Experience

A timeline.

From a graduate landing-gear engineer to leading the durability and damage tolerance team on a fighter jet — the path, in order.

Full resume

  1. Oct 2025 — Present

    Method & Tool Development Engineer

    Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Ankara, Turkey

  2. Aug 2021 — Present

    Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer

    Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Ankara, Turkey

  3. Sep 2017 — Aug 2021

    Structural Analysis Engineer

    Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Istanbul, Turkey

  4. Jul 2016 — Jun 2017

    Project Student & Intern

    TEI — TUSAŞ Engine Industries · Eskişehir, Turkey

  5. Feb 2018 — Jul 2022

    M.Sc. in Solid Mechanics

    Istanbul Technical University

Toolchain

Day-to-day engineering stack

  • MSC Nastran
  • Abaqus
  • ANSYS Mechanical
  • Altair HyperMesh
  • MSC Patran
  • CATIA V5
  • Python
  • pyNastran
  • scikit-learn
  • ML Surrogates
  • Optimisation
  • GFEM
  • DaDT
  • Slow Crack Growth
  • CS-23

Get in touch

Have a structural challenge?

Always happy to talk fatigue, FEA correlations, certification and aeronautical structures — drop a line.

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